Word: mistrials
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...trial, 14 days in seclusion and 71 hours of deliberation, a federal court jury in Los Angeles reported last week that it was "hopelessly deadlocked" in the case of Richard Miller, the first FBI agent ever to be charged with espionage. Judge David Kenyon was forced to declare a mistrial. "We have done our best," wrote the jury. "Our decisions are based on strong convictions that cannot be resolved...
...omen for four other prominent execs facing criminal charges: Richard Scrushy, the former chief of HealthSouth being tried for fraud in Alabama; the top two Enron guys, Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, scheduled for trials next year; and Dennis Kozlowski, accused of looting Tyco and being retried following a mistrial last year...
Corporate watchdogs were panting last week as not one but three former CEOs started trial: WorldCom's Bernard Ebbers, HealthSouth's Richard Scrushy and Tyco's Dennis Kozlowski, with the latter back in court after a mistrial. --By Julie Rawe...
Lawyers for Pring-Wilson on Friday called for a mistrial in light of the jury’s confusion, but Quinlan immediately dismissed the motion. Yesterday she said her clarification, along with the transcript of her original instructions, should be sufficient to clear up any of the jurors’ remaining questions...
...MISTRIAL DECLARED, in the fraud trial of L. DENNIS KOZLOWSKI and MARK H. SWARTZ, former executives of Tyco International; after a juror whose name was publicized as a lone holdout during jury deliberations received a threatening letter; in New York City (see page...